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John Mitchell dies; jailed for Watergate role
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WASHINGTON Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, who
authorized the Watergate break-in and then went to prison for
conspiring to cover it up, died Wednesday evening of a heart attack.
He was 75.
Mr. Mitchell collapsed on a sidewalk in Georgetown, said Claudia
Dominitz, a spokeswoman at George Washington University Hospital. An
ambulance crew found him unconscious, and he stopped breathing as he
was being taken to the hospital. Dominitz said he died despite
resuscitation efforts.
Although he was a tough law-and-order advocate, Mr. Mitchell was
the first former attorney general to be ...
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